Law firm seeks bright, experienced, reliable PI assistant.....to work for free
Another week, another law firm looking for some free labour. This time it's West Yorkshire firm,
Kingswell Watts Solicitors. A kind Roffer sent us a link to the firm's job page, where under the bold (and perhaps slightly misleading) heading "Training Contract", the firm has posted the following ad:
"Kingswell Watts are seeking a Personal Injury Assistant. The successful candidate will have a minimum of six months experience in any field of litigation. The position will be unpaid for the first three months probationary period with excellent career prospects thereafter and with a view to offer the successful candidate a training contract. Locally based applicants preferred. Closing date Monday 13/09/10" (emphasis added).
Interview day at Kingswell Watts
The firm's website also demands that candidates are not only "
bright and experienced" but also a good fit with "
the culture of the firm." So a bit miserly then?
The lucky experienced, clever, able candidate with excellent inter-personal skills who lands this plumb role will no doubt be cheered by the "
excellent career prospects" on offer after a three month stint of receiving sod all.
Hunger strike ends
In an update on
last week's story about US law grad Zenovia Evans - (sort of) starving herself in protest at law school tuition fees and employment stats - RoF Team has heard that the hunger strike is now OVER.
Yes, that's right folks. In another grand "Official Statement" posted on her website
Unemployed JD, Evans explains that her reasons for quitting were health-related rather than down to any dip in her commitment to the cause: "
based on my current medical complications and high potential to suffer permanent damage, I was advised by my physician to end my hunger strike".
Before she quit, however, there was plenty of time for our friends over the pond at Above the Law to
taunt the hungry crusader.
Fancy a chip, Zenovia?
Evans claims that over the hunger strike she lost 18 pounds and she seems to put her health at considerable risk. Still, it's far from clear whether her actions have made any difference whatsoever to the attitude of law schools.